Two Brothers
Atxaga, Bernardo
Two Brothers - London, The Harvill Press, 2001 - 117 Pg Pb
Book Purchased Under BCOM @599/- with bill no: 368, dtd: 18/01/2024
Contents:
1. The bird's story
2. The bird's story continues
3. The squirrel's story
4. The birds take up the story again
An elegiac tale of lost innocence and the ruthlessness of the natural world, where the hunter all too soon becomes the prey. As he dies leaving his two boys orphans, Paulo's father lays on him the duty to look after his retarded but overgrown younger brother, for otherwise Daniel will be put away in an institution. But Daniel never listens to his brother, who is unable to exert any authority over him. Instead Daniel, aged twenty and still in the throes of puberty, goes off in an inept, fumbling pursuit of the village girls, as they ride past on their bicycles on the way to sewing lessons or cake-baking classes. Among these girls are pretty Teresa and her plain friend, Carmen, a girl disfigured by a birthmark on one cheek. Both of them are sweet on Paulo, the quiet, irresolute but handso...
English
9781860468349
English-Novel
823/ATX/Two
Two Brothers - London, The Harvill Press, 2001 - 117 Pg Pb
Book Purchased Under BCOM @599/- with bill no: 368, dtd: 18/01/2024
Contents:
1. The bird's story
2. The bird's story continues
3. The squirrel's story
4. The birds take up the story again
An elegiac tale of lost innocence and the ruthlessness of the natural world, where the hunter all too soon becomes the prey. As he dies leaving his two boys orphans, Paulo's father lays on him the duty to look after his retarded but overgrown younger brother, for otherwise Daniel will be put away in an institution. But Daniel never listens to his brother, who is unable to exert any authority over him. Instead Daniel, aged twenty and still in the throes of puberty, goes off in an inept, fumbling pursuit of the village girls, as they ride past on their bicycles on the way to sewing lessons or cake-baking classes. Among these girls are pretty Teresa and her plain friend, Carmen, a girl disfigured by a birthmark on one cheek. Both of them are sweet on Paulo, the quiet, irresolute but handso...
English
9781860468349
English-Novel
823/ATX/Two